The early onset of diabetes could be due to factors that may have already come into play between age 10 and 17. Even as experts in preventive diabetology grapple with the syndrome of early setting in of diabetes, they are particularly concerned over children showing signs of insulin resistance, which is said to be the major cause of Type 2 diabetes later in their life. From a time when people were diagnosed with diabetes in their mid-forties, the age threshold has dipped to 30-35 years. Doctors say that in such cases, the factors might have already come into play between the age of 10 and 17, primarily because children have junk food and have no physical exercise.
The twenties are not any better. Almost all of them get into jobs that afford no time for exercise. Doctors at the research foundation of Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences say they found the indications in teens during a…
